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Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
Industry: Health care
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The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) is a federation of 39 separate health insurance organizations and companies in the United States. Combined, they directly or indirectly provide health insurance to over 100 million Americans.
Healthcare services provided to an HMO member in exchange for a fixed, monthly premium paid in advance of the delivery of medical care.
Industry:Health care
The primary governing body of an MCO.
Industry:Health care
A healthcare system that offers plan members a wide range of medical services through an exclusive group of providers in return for a monthly premium payment.
Industry:Health care
A name, number, term, sign, symbol, design, or combination of these elements that an organization uses to identify one or more products.
Industry:Health care
See pharmacy benefit management plan.
Industry:Health care
A salesperson who has obtained a state license to sell and service contracts of multiple health plans or insurers, and who is ordinarily considered to be an agent of the buyer, not the health plan or insurer.
Industry:Health care
See pharmaceutical cards.
Industry:Health care
A process that includes creating a financial plan of action that an organization believes will help it to achieve its goals, given the organization's forecast.
Industry:Health care
An illegal business practice that occurs when two or more independent competitors agree on the prices or fees that they will charge for services.
Industry:Health care
The unification of one or more separate business (nonclinical) functions into a single function.
Industry:Health care